Inquiry — what the rotation left open#

Episode 328 documents what the 2026-08-14 rotations settled. This vessel holds what they opened, each question with the measurement that raised it.

1. One machine or two?#

The MinoSteeringDay machine models one seat's day, yet rotating, the elder, and mia_architecture_seat are all arcs between seats. Does the seat lifecycle become a second machine (MinoSeatRotation) composing with the day machine, or a composite region inside it? Held for William — the answer decides what /chronicle and forgewright can render. (ROTATION-DESIGN-260814 §5.)

2. Does the rotation become a script?#

Every step of the rotating state is deterministic and measurable — handoff gate, seat resolution, rename, minting, boot, instrument walk, delivery confirmation. Proposed home: /a/src/Miadi/scripts/mino-rotate.sh, beside mino-handoff.sh, because that is where two rules that had failed three times as prose became a check that runs. Prose has an expiry; the design document says so of itself.

3. The composite-boundary renderer defect#

Stateloom edges crossing a composite boundary degrade into text labels (miadisabelle/Etuaptmumk-RSM#205), so an absent segment renders as severed by accident rather than by design. The rotation arc is a composite-boundary edge by definition. Until the renderer draws it, the diagram under-reports the very arc this episode exists to hold.

4. Who lands the canvas?#

mino.smdf.json sat modified, validate-clean, and uncommitted at episode birth — by the rotation's own law it is the live seat's to land. The second rotation replaced the live seat the same afternoon; the commit is now the new seat's inheritance, and whether that inheritance was announced loudly enough is itself a test of the .mino/threads/ announce surface.

5. Where does the second rotation's day count land?#

Day 21 rotated out the same afternoon it booted, and the successor's mission changed projects entirely (trading-platform intake). Does a seat that serves four hours carry a full day number, and does a project pivot reset the ladder? The ladder has been wrong out loud once already this week — day 20 called itself 21 all session.